What do you think about people with no piercings, not even ears? Do you think 'boring' or are you mentally rubbing your hands together thinking about what you could do with a fresh canvas?
Oh not at all, completely their decision. If I'm honest, I don't really notice.
How did you become a body piercer??
My father is in the body modification profession and I was a little lost after leaving school so kind of just fell in to it.
Do you get many people getting intimate piercings?
Not a huge amount no, probably 1 in 50 piercings are genital piercings.
Can you tell us about scarification? Is it difficult to do? Does it make you feel uncomfortable? Why is it preferable for some people over a tattoo? Is it permanent? What’s the oddest design you’ve had to do?Thanks!
Ok, so, scarification in my most honest opinion is disgusting. I don't particularly like doing it, it smells disgusting (the amount of blood), is vary rarely permanent in the sense that it isn't wholly defined for a great deal of time. I think people choose it over a tattoo as it makes more of an impression? I'm not sure. I don't do any kind of design that is intricate as it just doesn't look good (not that I think they really do anyway) so it's usually symbols of a type or another. I do scarification purely for the money.
I had my rook pieces in February and it's not healed yet. Everyday I'm cleaning it and getting crusty bits off. It's a little bit sore still but only if I'm rough with it. Is this normal? I would go back to where I got it pierced to ask, but I had it done at a tattoo convention and can't remember the name of the shop and it my well be the other side of the country. (Tattoo convention was 2hours away)
It's difficult to say without seeing it. Cartilage piercings can take over 9 months to heel, especially is you sleep on it, get your hair caught in it or wear over the head earphones. Make sure you aren't picking it and still cleaning it with salt water (1/2 pint of part cooled, boiled water to 1/4 teaspoon of salt is my advice) fairly often, especially if you've washed you hair as soap build up can make the oldest of piercings sore.
How hard is it to re-pierce nipples? My first experience was terrifyingly painful (more than childbirth!)...want to get them done again but i'm dead scared!
It's not often I use previous entry and exit points to re-pierce, if this was the case it would feel very much like the first time. Piercing through scar tissue however differs from person to person and depends a lot on the technique used by the piercer. Also if you breastfed can sometimes change a woman's pain tolerance in that area.
What would cause holes to become to closed over/painful to 're insert earrings after just a couple of hours when they have been pierced for months?
It's a myth that holes 'close up'. What actually happens is new tissue grows from the outside in (even more true in the case of cartilage) so if you have a piercing which you are struggling to get jewellery through, it's probably because you're healthy and your body is doing what it is supposed to do. I don't recommend sleeping in stud earrings (In fact I really don't like them very much at all) but it may be worth inserting them every few weeks even if you take them straight back out again just to prevent the tissue from forming.